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Top is a quickly I did last night before sleep; Bottom two are Costco drawings. Haven't been doing much on-location drawing for a while, feel a bit rusted.

The other day I have a fun and weird dream again ... Seem like weird dream is part of my sleeping routine there days. First the dino, then air ship adventure ... I go on airships hopping, meet some cool fun Gypsy friends; along the way get into plan accident ... emergency landed in Greece!! It may sound scary, but the group of people I am with in my dream, are very fun, adventurous and lively ...

A very dear friend of mine get married this past weekend. Top is a little painting I did for her, and below are sketches drawn during the ceremony.

Top is a phone doodle ... sometimes I like to doodle while talking on the phone. Just did this tonight. The middle piece is another doodle, I was planning to post for last week IF ' Detach" theme ... but lately things have been super crazy, half the time didn't get to sit down and draw much. Between crunch time, new school year and couple of other stuffs on the side ... five minutes of doodling time seems like a luxury these days.

These sketches kind of reflect my mind set ... humm ...

Top left, is a drawing from last Sunday Brunch. I went to have brunch with pals in a yummy restaurant in Burbank. We were sitting outside ... while waiting for food, we suddenly saw a group of photographers chasing a girl and taking pictures of her. I am kind of dumb with recognizing celebrity, unless I see them at film events, half the time I wouldn't recognize them even they are right in front of me. Anyhow, my friends told me those are paparazzi following Miley Cyrus (AKA Hannah Montana).

This set of T-shirt design are created for the release of my friend, Alex's new novel. The T-shirt can be purchased at my Ice-Cream Monster Store. They come in various trendy style for both guys and girls!! Please check them out!!

The final design of the shirt has the cigarette remove from the design. But the original concept works is designed with the character smoking a cigarette, thus the smoke design pattern. Below are the original design.

Since I get myself a bag of Bear Poops chocolate at Sierra Forest ... my friend start getting me "poops" for souvenir. Have to say they are quite tasty though! HA! HA !

Top is a Thank you card for friend. Middle sketch is a dino puppet at the Natural History Museum. It's AWESOME!! A blogger friend recommends me about the puppet, I check it out!! OH Boy!! It's GREAT! If you are located in LA, you should check out the Dinosaur Encounters at the Natural History Museum.

When I was a little kid, I always dream to become a rocket scientist when I grow up. I love drawing and arts, but to me that's a hobby not a grow up dream. Sometimes life makes an interesting twist ... long story short, I turn out to be an artist with cosmo science for hobby instead ... LOL Rocket science still facinated me!

I just finish a book called, "Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickam. Highly recommended, very inspiring and fun story. Hickam is a retired NASA engineer.

I recently finish the book - How to Train Your Dragon, it's a funny story, can't help to make a illo out of it. Below are doodles from a Film Academy event. They are having Frederic Back arts exhibition at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood - highly recommended it. The artworks are beautiful.

Totoro Forest Art Auction Benefit Event to be held here at Pixar on September 6th. The first pre-sale will start monday 8/11 at 10am.